Theatre workshop - exclusive for students

Yours Truly Theatre announces its next theatre workshop for students (18 and above)

This 5-Sunday long workshop will culminate in a performance by the participants, who will explore the creation of an entire production through character building, storytelling, Patterns and rhythms, physical training in different theatre styles and improvisations using the dramatic and theatrical facets.

Yours Truly is looking for young and enthusiastic students to be a part of this workshop.

Email…..: yourstrulytheatre@gmail.com
Url…….: www.yourstruly-theatre.com

Add comment May 16th, 2008

LCube - The Leadership Quiz at IIMB

The PGSEM program at IIM Bangaloreis holding a Corporate Quiz to mark
the tenth year of its founding. The details are given below.

LCube - The Leadership Quiz

A Quiz on achievers and leaders in Business, Sports and World Politics

Date and Time:
5:30 pm, Saturday, May 31st 2008
Venue:
IIM Bangalore

The quiz is researched by KQA.
Prof. Rajeev Gowda will host the event.

RULES
2 member teams, open to all Corporate Participants
Participants from different companies are allowed to form teams
Registration Fees: Rs. 600 per team

Prizes:
First Prize: Rs. 20,000
Second Prize: Rs. 10,000
Third Prize: Rs. 5,000

For further information , please mail

Hemant Minocha
hemantm06@iimb.ernet.in

or
pgsem.lcube08@iimb.ernet.in

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Lucknow ‘76 at Rangashankara

Lucknow ‘76, a play set across 100 hundred years of Indian history, from 1876 to 1976, returns to Rangashankara on 18th May (3:30 pm & 7:30 pm).

Directed by Abhishek Majumdar and devised by an ensemble of actors the play looks at the lives of common people in the historic city of Lucknow in 1876, when Queen Victoria had taken over from the East India Company as the empress of India and in 1976 when Indira Gandhi had imposed press censorship as part of the national emergency.

Lucknow ‘76 moves between these two time frames and looks at the effects that history has on common people. The play has been supported by the British Library in London for its research and by Kathalaya in Bangalore for its making. This production is also supported by Black Coffee Productions, who are an established theatre company in the
city.

Lucknow ‘76 is in aid of Concern India Foundation, a non-profit public charitable trust which was started in 1991 with the objective of ‘Helping People Help Themselves’. The aim of the foundation is to help make every underprivileged individual self-reliant, creating a society of independent people living with dignity.

For telebookings please call 9900133287

Play review in The Hindu:
www.hindu.com/mp/2008/03/05/stories/2008030550710400.htm

Venue & Date:
Rangashankara, JP Nagar
18th May - Sunday: 3.30 PM and 7.30 PM

Add comment May 16th, 2008

Film shows by TEN Film Square

TEN Film Square An independent community of film lovers to explore Cinematic parallels without boundaries.
TEN Film Square is non- profit film society affiliated to FFSI
We are starting screenings from May 1st, 2008
Movies -
1-May-2008  - Chi- hwa- seon (Painted Fire)

Language: Korean
Director: Kwon-taek Im, Year:2002
Duration: 117 min

2-May-2008 - Ten
Language: Persian
Director: Abbas Kiarostami, Year:2002
Duration: 94 min

Date - 1-May-2008 and 1-May-2008  ..( Thursday / Friday)
Time - 5pm - 6pm- for registration,
6.30pm - screening starts

Venue- cfd, Centre for Film and Drama
5th floor Sona Towers
71 millers road
Bengaluru

membership fees –
for professional Rs 400/- per year
for student Rs 200/- per year ( student id required)

contact:
tenfilmsqaure@gmail.com
www.10fs.org

Add comment April 25th, 2008

Film show - Secret Ballot

In the context of the coming elections and heated debates about the electoral democracy…
pedestrian pictures invites you to the screening of
Secret Ballot
Director: Babak Payami
(2001/105minutes/English sub)
Date: 26-Apr-2008 , Saturday
Time: 5 – 7.30 pm
Venue: Institution of Agricultural Technologists (IAT), Queen’s Road (near Indian Express circle, Cunningham Road), Bangalore
For directions to the venue, contact 94483 71389 (Uvaraj) or 98860 52763 (Anil). Email pedepics@gmail.com .More details about the film, directions to venue, etc. can be found at www.pedestrianpictures.org

Film synopsis

An unsuspecting soldier awakens to discover that he can forget about another uneventful day at his lonely seaside post. It’s Election Day!

A ballot box is parachuted down as a young woman pulls up to the shore of the remote island. To the soldier’s surprise, she’s actually the government bureaucrat in charge of local voting. The couple gets off to a rocky start since the soldier expects election agents to be men.

Whether he wants to or not, the soldier is thrown into an elections adventure that just may put him out of a job. Orders from above force him to accompany the female agent in an army jeep across the island’s dusty desert. The agent literally leaves no stone unturned in her search for ballots. Many a surprise lies along their route, as they find themselves in one absurd situation after another.

So much can happen in a single day, especially when opposites attract. Views can change, hearts can melt. By sunset, a woman’s idealistic notions can come back down to earth. And a lonely man can discover there’s more to voting by secret ballot than he ever imagined

Awards - Silver Lion for Best Director - Babak Payami - 2001 ,Venice International Film Festival Pasinetti Award for Best Film – 2001, Venice International Film Festival
OCIC Award – 2001, Venice International Film Festival Netpac Award – 2001,  ,Cinema for Unicef Award - 2001 ,   the FIPRESCI Prize - Special Mention at the London Film Festival ,  the Special Jury Award at the São Paulo International Film Festival ,  the Best New Director at the Valladolid International Film Festival

–
www.pedestrianpictures.org
pedestrian pictures is a media activist organization working in Bangalore since 2001.

Add comment April 23rd, 2008